I am hoping by Monday or Tuesday they have their first four picks signed and assigned to one of the low minor league teams. I am assuming since the team is now at home they will want the draftees to sign, attend a game or two with their family, and meet some of the current Pirate players.

Saw this on P2: Jim Callis from MLB Pipeline announced that the Pittsburgh Pirates will sign first round draft pick Travis Swaggerty for $4.4 M. The deal won’t be official until he passes his physical, which could be done as early as today. That deal is $160,200 under slot.

P2 also reports that he is going to Morgantown to start the season. Whoopee I will be at Blackbears games on June 23 and 28. Can't wait to see him.

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Saw this on P2: Jim Callis from MLB Pipeline announced that the Pittsburgh Pirates will sign first round draft pick Travis Swaggerty for $4.4 M. The deal won’t be official until he passes his physical, which could be done as early as today. That deal is $160,200 under slot.

P2 also reports that he is going to Morgantown to start the season. Whoopee I will be at Blackbears games on June 23 and 28. Can't wait to see him.

Saw this on P2: Jim Callis from MLB Pipeline announced that the Pittsburgh Pirates will sign first round draft pick Travis Swaggerty for $4.4 M. The deal won’t be official until he passes his physical, which could be done as early as today. That deal is $160,200 under slot.

P2 also reports that he is going to Morgantown to start the season. Whoopee I will be at Blackbears games on June 23 and 28. Can't wait to see him.

We will like a good scouting report from you after watching him play.

Will at least be able to let you guys know is line for the nite and any plays in the field he makes but a "scouting report"? Will leave that to the pros. Really looking forward to seeing the BlackBears play though.

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The final date to sign players from the draft is July 6th. I know two of the Pirates top ten players are participating in the College World Series. That should conclude by the end of the week. There are a couple of prep players who have not yet signed, and one or two who previously said they were signing. It will be an interesting several days to see if the Pirates get several more draft choices under contract.

The Pirates have until Friday to sign any additional draft picks. I assume they will sign the 2 players ( Koch and Gretler)who played in the College World Series, but it does not look very promising that they will sign Hoglund. Lately there has been no indication that he will be coming to Pittsburgh to sign a contract.

The typical waiting exercise all teams go through each summer. I am certainly hopeful Hoglund will sign. He is slotted to make $1.967M. If the Bucs save 200K on Gretler and Koch, that would the equivalent of a four year degree at about any top college. Hoglund looks like a really unique prospect. As the week comes to an end, I hope he finds $2M too much to resist.

The typical waiting exercise all teams go through each summer. I am certainly hopeful Hoglund will sign. He is slotted to make $1.967M. If the Bucs save 200K on Gretler and Koch, that would the equivalent of a four year degree at about any top college. Hoglund looks like a really unique prospect. As the week comes to an end, I hope he finds $2M too much to resist.

Just wondering about your idea of his bonus being enough to pay for a top college education. Nice idea but why not give him slot and then pay his tuition to school as long as he is able to play some ball in the fall instructs. I wonder if that is allowed under the draft bonus rules?

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dmetz and Davis Square - The OBN "This Player Sucks Brothers" cause they are as cool as "Joliet Jake and Elwood"

The typical waiting exercise all teams go through each summer. I am certainly hopeful Hoglund will sign. He is slotted to make $1.967M. If the Bucs save 200K on Gretler and Koch, that would the equivalent of a four year degree at about any top college. Hoglund looks like a really unique prospect. As the week comes to an end, I hope he finds $2M too much to resist.

Just wondering about your idea of his bonus being enough to pay for a top college education. Nice idea but why not give him slot and then pay his tuition to school as long as he is able to play some ball in the fall instructs. I wonder if that is allowed under the draft bonus rules?

I am sure Hoglund will get every penny of the slot money, which is $1,967,900. The question is how much more can the Bucs come up with?

I was trying to infer if they came up with $200,000, they could argue they are paying for the equivalent of his cost of education.

Perhaps the Bucs could give that as straight signing bonus and still pony up for the cost of his college education?

I thought there might be some restrictions on that now with the slotting system. If not, a team might say " we will give you slot money and a million dollars for college."